Thurston, Nebraska
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Flournoy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68062. The Survey maps it on the Thurston quadrangle. 116 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,394 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresThurston fell from 132 to 116 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 132 | |
| 2020 | 116 | -16 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1955 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Thurston quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Sioux City South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Thurston between 2002 and 2019, burning about 312 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 June 2002 | Smoking | 17 acres | Winnebago Agency | A1302052 |
| 21 April 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Winnebago Agency | ROSALIE #003 |
| 1 April 2015 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 280 acres | Winnebago Agency | BIA #474 |
| 31 March 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Winnebago Agency | BIA #04-19 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thurston in 21 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 12 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2019 | Flood | Thurston | $60,000 | This is for flooding along the Logan Creek. The river gage at Pender, operated by the Nebraska DNR, peaked at 28.8 feet at 8 am on March 14th. Major flood stage is 23 feet. Preliminary this peak is the highest on record. Though the town is protected by a levee, some significant flooding did occur in Pender. Water entered the Pender Community Center, as deep as 1.5 feet in some places. Highway 9 was closed as water was over the road. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Thurston | - | Public reported golf ball sized hail. |
| May 2019 | Heavy Rain | Thurston | - | Measured 3.93 inches of rain northwest of Thurston. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thurston | - | The emergency manager reported that several trees were reported downed between Pender and Emerson. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thurston | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph downed trees in town and also caused some roof damage. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thurston | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 60 mph downed small branches in the area. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thurston | - | Tree limbs and corn were blown down by thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Thurston | - | The hail was accompanied by 50 mph winds. |
| July 2003 | Flash Flood | Thurston | - | Heavy rain caused flash flooding in parts of Thurston county. Part of a county road bridge was washed out east of Rosalie, and flood waters caused a culvert to collapse which damaged a road east of Thurston. Rainfall of 5.5 inches was reported east of Thurston from the thunderstorms. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thurston | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph blew down a few center pivots, grain bins and trees northwest of Thurston. A few outbuildings were also damaged. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thurston | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 65 mph downed power lines and arm size in diameter tree limbs in Thurston. The winds were accompanied by nickel size hail. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Thurston | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Thurston | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Thurston | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Thurston | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Thurston | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Thurston | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Thurston | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Thurston | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Thurston | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Thurston | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Thurston | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2406599 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 834107. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.




